Greene on S.C. House race ballot

Failed Senate candidate Alvin Greene is trying again for public office, this time aiming for a seat in the South Carolina House.

Voters go to the polls Tuesday to vote in the Democratic primary for a seat that belonged to a woman who died last year, and Greene, the improbable candidate who faced Republican Sen. Jim DeMint in the general election in November, is on the ballot.

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In December, Greene paid the $165 fee to the Clarendon County Democratic Party to enter the race, just five minutes after the filing period opened. The special election is set for April 5.

The other three Democratic candidates in the race have said that they haven’t seen Greene campaigning, and he skipped a January debate. He told The Associated Press he had “no comment” on his strategy in the race and said he was feeling OK about the election.

But if he’s unsuccessful, that doesn’t mean Greene is leaving politics for good.

In November, he told POLITICO that he was thinking about a White House bid and had called South Carolina’s Democratic Party to ask how much it would cost to run for president. “Maybe. I’ll have to see,” he said.